• Never give a scholarship to a person who you wouldn’t want to come to your house.
• Everything starts with personal integrity.
• The guys around your team; teammates, have to be good for your team to have the success they are capable of achieving.
• Coaches need to let players be part owners of that team so they feel how important the outcome is; like a coach feels in the outcome of a big game or a great practice. 
• Coaches will do as much as they can get away with, just like players.
• John Wooden rarely talked about winning and losing.  He talked about doing everything the right way.
• Red understood leadership and how to get the most out of his guys.  He was a teacher first and foremost.
• Bill Russell feels that if you break the opponents game down too much, you can over analyze.  Don’t over analyze.
• The best players play with their heart and mind.
• The problems with players have always been out there.  It just depends on which type of players you want to coach. 

Featuring Coach Rich Stoner – 6 Straight State Playoff Appearances!

Rich Stoner has been a very successful high school basketball coach for the last ten years. Coach Stoner was named 2005 Coach of the Year by the Home News Tribune and the Star Ledger and 2006 Blue Division Coach of the Year by the GMC Coaches Association. Since taking over at Metuchen High School, his teams have qualified for the state playoffs six years in a row after having only qualified once in the previous 17 seasons. They have advanced to the state semifinals in two of those years. Coach Stoner also runs his own basketball specific training business called Elite Basketball Training, LLC and is a USAW certified Sports Performance Coach. He has coached and trained multiple college athletes including five at the Division 1 level (Marqus Blakely, University of Vermont basketball; Dejuan Miller, University of Oklahoma football; Dallas Oanu, Villanova Basketball; Nick Macaluso, University of Stanford football; and Knowshon Moreno, Denver Broncos).

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What’s Included with the Rich Stoner Online Clinic?

Component #1 – 31 Minute Video Clinic

In the video you will learn:

• Great Defensive Drills & Tips That You Can Use With Your Team Tomorrow
• 4 Close Out Drills
• Situational Drills That Will Improve Game Performance
• Defensive Disadvantage Drills To Improve Communication and Rotations
• 2 Transition Drills
• Implementing 3 on 3 Drills To Improve Your Team

Component #2 – 42 Minute Audio Interview

In the audio recording you will learn:

• How he took a high school varsity team that had 17 straight losing seasons and turned them into a state qualifier and contender year in and year out!
• Extremely effective ways to develop strong team chemistry, loyalty, and a family atmosphere.
• Unique pressure defensive techniques and effective methods to force turnovers.
• Half court and full court defensive systems, drills, and strategies.
• New types of defensive presses you’ve never seen before.
• Unique game strategies and tactics that will give you an edge on the competition.
• Youth and middle school coaching strategies.
• How to control the tempo of the game.
• Unique strategies to develop effective youth development / feeder programs.
• And much, much more!

Component #3 – PDF / eBook Downloads

To supplemment the audio interview, you’ll receive a 19 page PDF transcript of the entire audio interview. You’ll also receive a 17 page PDF eBook that was developed from the audio interview. It’s a useful guide for reference and to build upon the tips on the audio interview.

Component #4 – Diagrams & Video Clips of Drills and Plays

In the clinic, you’ll get diagrams and written instructions for all the drills that Rich covers in the audio and video. These are some of Rich’s favorite drills. The videos also allow you to easily navigate to a specific part of the clinic video.

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In order to watch clinic videos online, you’ll need high speed internet access. In other words, the videos won’t work on Dial Up internet. If you don’t have high speed internet, you could watch the video at a friend’s house, the library, or possibly at your work place.

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Yes. If you purchase the clinic, you can view the video, diagrams, pdfs, and audio as many times as you want whenever you want.

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The price for the online clinic is $24.95.

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1.  Commitment by the players to DEFENSE. 

“To those whom defense is not important they will have the best seat in the house.”  -Rick Majerus

 2.  Habits created in practice.

3.  Focus.

4.  Passion (a competitive motor).

In this basketball training video, the player is executing a drill which emphasizes the low position that is necessary as a player goes by their defender.  In this case, the player will make a move at the cone (the defender) in a low enough position that she can knock down the cone, then she must hold that position for a two count, and then push off the back leg for one dribble and finish high into her jump shot.  Holding the position will help her body understand the low, explosive position that she needs to get to in order to explode past the defender low and stay low until she elevates up into her jump shot.

Yesterday’s Elite Basketball Skills and Drills Clinics  at The Salvation Army Gym in Red Bank, was my first clinic back into the area that I grew up playing basketball in, and boy was it exciting!  Thanks to local shooting instructor, Scott Byrne, the turnout for the clinic was great and the energy that the young players brought was even better.  For two hours, the players and coaches worked hard on skill development as well as speed, agility, footwork, and balance.  The atmosphere was fun and exciting and promises to be even better for each of the next three Sundays in October (Elite Basketball Skills and Drills Clinics). 

My wife was able to capture some great images of the players hard at work during some of their drills and they can be viewed on my Flickr account.

Thanks to all those who attended for making my return to the Monmouth County Area an exciting one and I look forward to working with all of you in the future.

See you on the court!

Rich Stoner

Elite Basketball Training, LLC

A good way to start to develop your weak hand in ball handling is by working out with two basketballs at once.  To start, keep it simple with some two ball pounds and then as you progress add some of the other dribbles that can be seen in the video below.  Try to be creative with this and challenge yourself with new dribbles and moves, and if you come up with any others that are not seen in the video feel free to let me know in the comments section.  Thanks and enjoy.

Dynamic Warmup

Basketball Specific Warmup: I usually start each workout with ball handling so my players usually go through a series of pound drills with either one ball or two.  Each specific dribble (crossovers, between the legs, inside outs) takes about 25 seconds.

Full court ball handling (w/ one ball or two balls): This usually consists of various full court ball handling drills that incorporate the different change of direction moves (crossover, between the legs, behind the back, spin dribble, etc.)  as well as changes of speed.  This is also meant to work on the player’s game specific conditioning, so rest between reps is often limited to 30 seconds or less.  Beginners usually perform one up and back per move at 75% of their max speed and two up and backs per move at full speed and I encourage you to add to that as the player advances and their conditioning increases. 

The next series of drills usually consists of weak hand development drills.  These drills incorporate passing the ball with your weak hand either on the catch, off a pound, out of a change of direction, or in a half court situation off the dribble.  For these drills, the player usually performs two drills that are stationary and two that are done while moving with the dribble.  During each drill, the player completes 8-10 reps per set with about 30 seconds rest in between sets.

My players will then get into their jump shooting or finishing drills or both depending upon the length of the workout.  If the player is focusing on finishing around the rim, they will start off with one or two warmup finishing drills like circle layups (which consists of continuous finishes off the catch).  Upon completion of the warmup, we will get into a series of finishing drills that incorporate creating space off the catch (like a side angle step across or rip through series) or finishing off the dribble (like a six cone attack drill).  Throughout both drills, it is important to incorporate various ways to create space and/or change direction.

If the player is working more on their jump shot that day, they will start off with a series of form shooting drills. We will then get into different shooting drills that allow that player to get shots off the catch and off the dribble.  All the while these drills must be done at game speed, from game spots.

With the finishing and shooting drills, the reps are usually determined by a number of makes.  In other words, the player must make 10 shots during a set or 50 shots during the workout.  It should be noted that if the focus of that workout is on jump shooting then the player will take considerably more jump shots in the hour or hour and half session. 

At the end of each set of drills the players are challenged to make a one and one free throw situation.  If they miss the front end, it is 10 pushups.  If they make the first and miss the second, it is five pushups.  If they make both, they do none.   

Often times, the players will finish with some sort of competition shooting game that puts pressure on the player to make shots consecutively.  For example, the Bird Drill is a five spot shooting drill that gives the player two minutes to see how far they can get around and back.  The key is that they cannot move from one spot until they have hit two jumpers in a row.  This is a challenging but fun drill that the players really enjoy.

This workout, is a template for some of the workouts that my players go through.  It can and should be modified to fit the player’s needs.  There is no one generic workout, that can be given to players because all players have their strengths and weaknesses that they need to work on.  However, there are certain apsects of the game that should be worked on in each training session, and I have tried to lay them out for you here and in my previous posts , The Six Keys to Basketball Skill Development and 10 Keys to a Shooting Workout.

In this video, this ballhandling  drill forces the player to be low while exploding by his defender off the dribble.  During the drill, the player will start at half court, dribble at the chair (his defender), and as he goes by the chair, he must pick up the tennis ball on his way to the basket.  This will help him get low enough where his shoulder is almost at his defender’s hip height.  By being this low, it will make him more aggressive as he beats his defender and allow him to explode up toward the basket when he finishes.